EF0 tornado — Pulaski County, Georgia

EF0 tornado in Pulaski County, Georgia

Tornado January 4, 2015 · Pulaski County, Georgia

EF0

Rating

0.2 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$15K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

An NWS survey team found that a brief EF0 tornado, with maximum wind speeds of 85 MPH and a maximum path width of 50 yards, touched down in far southern Pulaski County in the 1600 block of Pineview Highway. The tornado travelled .16 miles before dissipating. Approximately 20 small to medium-sized pine trees were snapped along the path of this tornado. A very large oak limb fell onto a brick outbuilding, causing minor damage to the roof and the covering was also blown off of a well house. [01/04/15: Tornado #1, County #1-1, EF0, Pulaski, 2015:001].

The wider storm

A strong surface low associated with a deep upper-level trough lifted out of the lower Mississippi Valley and swept across the southern Appalachians the evening of January 3rd through the morning of January 4th producing heavy rain and flash flooding, severe thunderstorms and isolated tornadoes.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 555626. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF0 tornado in Pulaski County, Georgia

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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